... >Bobby Bowden started a little kerfuffle by claiming that Charlie Ward may have been as good as Tim Tebow. Please note: he didn't say that Ward was better explicitly, he only stated that it was plausible. It is not nearly as far-fetched as Gator fans choose to believe.

After all, Bowden remembers that the national media frenzy over Charlie Ward was as big as it is over Tebow now, and when you consider that Ward's career came before the maximum exposure era of the Internet, blogs, and sports talk radio and also before ESPN became the monster that it is now, that is saying something.

Make no mistake, for two years Ward was the No. 1 star in college football and a ma...

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